Archive - Matriarchal Blessing

Weaponized Gratitude

Gratitude is a great solution for a bad mood. Gratitude is not a great solution for inequality. But it is often presented as one.

Aug 3 •

July 2025

Well women don’t really contribute much to human progress anyway, do they?

"Women have always been 50% of the population, but only occupy around 0.5% of 3500 years of recorded history." - Dr. Bettany Hughes

Jul 27 •

Can we consult the white housewives of the 1950s before we hold them up as the gold standard of satisfied women?

If we don't know our homemaking history, we are destined to repeat it.

Jul 20 •

The Upside Down World Where Boobs are Worse than Murder

Obi Wan getting sliced in half? Fine. Princess Leia in a bikini? TURN IT OFFFFF!!!!!!

Jul 13 •

Taylor Swift and the Tall Poppy Syndrome

The higher the woman's success, the more we love to cut her down. Taylor knows this better than anyone.

Jul 6 •

June 2025

Why Religious Tools Don't Work for Women

The spiritual work of men is to dissolve the ego. But that is not the spiritual work of women.

Jun 29 •

It's time we stop asking warlords how to prevent war. And start asking women.

How to prevent war. By Virginia Woolf, Riane Eisler, Leymah Gbowee, Julie Ward Howe, Malalai Joya, Audre Lorde, Winona LaDuke, Gloria Steinem and bell…

Jun 22 •

Never Meet Your Heroes'... Wives

From Andrew Huberman and Carl Sagan to Einstein and Gandhi - why isn't treating women well a standard for our heroes?

Jun 15 •

"Positive masculinity" is just femininity. The fact that we can't say that IS the problem.

Is the positive masculinity movement a necessary step in the right direction? Or is it impeding progress by neglecting to address the very heart of the…

Jun 8 •

I am a feminist and I am concerned about the male loneliness epidemic.

Can we PLEASE move this conversation out of either/or thinking and into both/and?

Jun 1 •

May 2025

Shhh no one tell the men they are misbehaving... it's a secret.

The real secret of lives of Mormon wives is... internalized misogyny.

May 25 •

As a mother to teen daughters, I'm not that concerned about Sabrina Carpenter's influence (...but I am about Gracie Abrams)

As far as complexes go, I fear the Madonna more than I fear the whore.

May 18 •

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